Meta has won a copyright lawsuit filed by 13 authors who claimed the company used their books without permission to train its AI systems.
Judge Vince Chhabria ruled in Meta's favor based on the fair use defense, emphasizing that this doesn't give Meta unrestricted rights to use copyrighted material for AI training.
The authors argued that Meta's AI model could reproduce their work, harming their licensing potential, but the judge dismissed these claims as weak.
The ruling clarifies that Meta's copying did not present a significant risk of market saturation with similar works, contrasting a separate case where using legally purchased books for AI training was deemed fair use.